+## <a name="NAMEI vs. inode based file serve"></a> NAMEI vs. inode based file server
+
+There are two different flavours of the AFS file server (the fs process): One uses inodes to store AFS data (volumes, files, metadata), the other uses real files.
+
+The inode-based server needs a file system which supports access by inode and usually a special fsck is required so that the AFS data is not corrupted (since the server does some behind-the-scenes stuff with the file system). The NAMEI file server does not pose any unusual constraints on the underlying filesystem - it's an ordinary userspace program working with (silly-named) files.
+
+You can easily see that you are using an NAMEI file server if there are files like `V0536871833.vol` in your `/vicep*`.
+
+-- [[TinoSchwarze]] - 18 Nov 2002
+
## <a name="Recommended Partition Types for"></a><a name="Recommended Partition Types for "></a> Recommended Partition Types for use with [[OpenAFS]]
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<td> i386_linux24 </td>
- <td><code>ext2</code></td>
+ <td><code>ext2</code>, <code>ext3</code></td>
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<td> sun4x_5[789] </td>